Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 365 227 313
Rank change year-on-year -138 +86 -61
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 471 675 885
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.38% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.52% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 238 299 522
10th Percentile £38,656 £48,750 £37,514
25th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £51,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £72,500 £68,338
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +6.09% +1.24%
75th Percentile £83,438 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £62,500 £58,700
% change year-on-year +0.80% +6.47% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -133 432 £63,110 -12.95% 482
Work from Home +55 254 £63,076 -5.15% 180
London -38 252 £71,811 -10.24% 334
UK excluding London -189 173 £63,000 +0.80% 183
North of England -14 63 £65,288 -18.39% 37
North West +17 42 £85,000 +6.25% 20
South East -153 30 £45,000 -28.00% 68
East of England -10 29 £65,000 -9.72% 26
Midlands -40 24 £56,250 -19.06% 24
South West -79 22 £68,528 +14.21% 14
West Midlands -15 20 £58,750 -15.47% 14
Yorkshire -28 18 £60,850 -23.94% 16
Scotland +8 5 £85,000 +4.62% 13
East Midlands -31 4 £38,347 -46.18% 10
North East -44 3 £63,076 -23.54% 1
Wales -47 3 £69,501 +16.11% 3

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (2.76%) Confluence
3 9 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.06%) CMS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 53 (11.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 27 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (8.28%) Workfront
2 4 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.85%) Shopify
3 2 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 75 (15.92%) AWS
2 65 (13.80%) SaaS
3 53 (11.25%) iPaaS
4 52 (11.04%) Azure
5 17 (3.61%) GCP
6 14 (2.97%) Power Platform
7 13 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (2.55%) GitHub
9 11 (2.34%) Pulumi
10 9 (1.91%) Figma
10 9 (1.91%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
12 7 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (1.27%) Asana
14 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.06%) Miro
15 4 (0.85%) Amazon Bedrock
15 4 (0.85%) Azure AI
15 4 (0.85%) H2O.ai
15 4 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (15.50%) Broadband
2 28 (5.94%) HTTP
3 10 (2.12%) WAN
4 8 (1.70%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.27%) Firewall
5 6 (1.27%) LAN
6 5 (1.06%) Network Security
6 5 (1.06%) NGN
7 4 (0.85%) MPLS
7 4 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.64%) WLAN
9 2 (0.42%) DNS
9 2 (0.42%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.42%) Multicast
9 2 (0.42%) SAN
9 2 (0.42%) Wireless
10 1 (0.21%) NFC
10 1 (0.21%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.21%) Skype
10 1 (0.21%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (12.10%) Metadata
2 12 (2.55%) Power BI
2 12 (2.55%) Relational Database
3 11 (2.34%) NoSQL
3 11 (2.34%) RDBMS
4 5 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 4 (0.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.64%) Big Data
6 3 (0.64%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.64%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.64%) Tableau
7 2 (0.42%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (0.42%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.21%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.21%) Redis
8 1 (0.21%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (5.94%) JIRA
2 11 (2.34%) Jaeger
3 6 (1.27%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.21%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 157 (33.33%) Marketing
2 151 (32.06%) Social Skills
3 136 (28.87%) Finance
4 64 (13.59%) Banking
5 58 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (12.31%) Retail
6 53 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (10.62%) Presentation Skills
8 49 (10.40%) Influencing Skills
9 45 (9.55%) Law
10 33 (7.01%) Public Sector
11 29 (6.16%) Legal
12 22 (4.67%) Back Office
13 15 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (2.97%) Italian Language
14 14 (2.97%) Manufacturing
14 14 (2.97%) Retail Banking
15 11 (2.34%) German Language
16 10 (2.12%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.91%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 143 (30.36%) Product Manager
2 76 (16.14%) Product Owner
3 72 (15.29%) Lead
4 68 (14.44%) Senior
5 40 (8.49%) Senior Manager
6 37 (7.86%) Senior Product Manager
7 34 (7.22%) Software Engineer
8 29 (6.16%) Development Engineer
9 28 (5.94%) Software Development Engineer
10 20 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
11 19 (4.03%) Developer
12 16 (3.40%) Consultant
13 15 (3.18%) Platform Manager
13 15 (3.18%) Product Lead
14 14 (2.97%) Business Consultant
14 14 (2.97%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.97%) Development Consultant
15 12 (2.55%) AWS Developer
15 12 (2.55%) Cloud Developer
15 12 (2.55%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (6.37%) REST
2 11 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (1.70%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.70%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.27%) CSS
4 6 (1.27%) HTML
5 5 (1.06%) LangChain
6 4 (0.85%) Keras
6 4 (0.85%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (0.85%) Spring
6 4 (0.85%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.64%) .NET
8 2 (0.42%) FHIR
8 2 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (0.42%) Pandas
8 2 (0.42%) React
8 2 (0.42%) Seaborn
8 2 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 166 (35.24%) Product Ownership
2 64 (13.59%) Social Media
3 54 (11.46%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (11.46%) Over-the-Top Content
4 36 (7.64%) Cloud Native
5 29 (6.16%) Public Cloud
6 19 (4.03%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.61%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.55%) Web Conferencing
11 11 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 9 (1.91%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.70%) Data Centre
13 8 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.70%) Driving Licence
14 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (1.27%) Mobile App
14 6 (1.27%) Podcast
14 6 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.03%) Linux
2 12 (2.55%) Unix
3 7 (1.49%) Windows
4 2 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.21%) Android
5 1 (0.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (64.12%) Roadmaps
2 220 (46.71%) Agile
3 136 (28.87%) Product Roadmap
4 128 (27.18%) Product Vision
5 109 (23.14%) Decision-Making
6 98 (20.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 95 (20.17%) AI
8 93 (19.75%) User Stories
9 88 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (18.05%) Product Backlog
11 84 (17.83%) Customer Experience
12 81 (17.20%) Mentoring
13 79 (16.77%) Product Requirements
14 74 (15.71%) Sprint Planning
15 70 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
16 67 (14.23%) Workflow
17 66 (14.01%) Software Engineering
18 64 (13.59%) User Experience
19 63 (13.38%) Analytics
19 63 (13.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 47 (9.98%) Java
2 31 (6.58%) Python
3 22 (4.67%) JavaScript
4 13 (2.76%) Bash
5 12 (2.55%) SQL
6 11 (2.34%) Go
7 6 (1.27%) Bicep
8 3 (0.64%) C#
8 3 (0.64%) C++
8 3 (0.64%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.64%) PHP
8 3 (0.64%) R
9 2 (0.42%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.21%) C
10 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 74 (15.71%) Degree
2 13 (2.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.55%) AWS Certification
4 11 (2.34%) SC Cleared
5 9 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.91%) HND
5 9 (1.91%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.70%) HNC
7 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.85%) CCNA
8 4 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.85%) CSPO
8 4 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.64%) CISSP
10 2 (0.42%) ACCA
10 2 (0.42%) CIMA
10 2 (0.42%) Dell Certification
10 2 (0.42%) MCSA
10 2 (0.42%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.94%) QA
2 19 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.34%) GDPR
4 10 (2.12%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.85%) PERC
5 4 (0.85%) SLA
6 2 (0.42%) DICOM
6 2 (0.42%) HL7
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.42%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) DO-178B
7 1 (0.21%) GRC
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (3.61%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Firmware
3 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.42%) vSphere
4 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (5.31%) Terraform
2 16 (3.40%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.34%) Ansible
3 11 (2.34%) Argo
3 11 (2.34%) Kustomize
3 11 (2.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.64%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.42%) WSUS
6 1 (0.21%) Amdocs OSS
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 60 (12.74%) Adobe
2 46 (9.77%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.25%) Google
4 11 (2.34%) Oracle
5 10 (2.12%) Cisco
6 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.27%) Dell
8 5 (1.06%) Databricks
8 5 (1.06%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.06%) Juniper
9 4 (0.85%) NVIDIA
9 4 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.85%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.64%) Aderant
10 3 (0.64%) iManage
11 2 (0.42%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.42%) HP
11 2 (0.42%) Intapp
11 2 (0.42%) Red Hat